IP Telephony Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IP Telephony
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IP Telephony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IP Telephony over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 351 437
Rank change year-on-year +34 +86 +185
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 3 1 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.029% 0.007% 0.088%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.066% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile £225 £613 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £625 £743
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -15.88% +95.53%
75th Percentile £275 £638 £875
90th Percentile - - £963
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +120.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - - £16.33
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IP Telephony falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,116 1,516 2,789
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.89% 10.56% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 981 1,830
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +0.89%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 68 98
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £44.00 £14.72 £25.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.51
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £43.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +56.36% -5.17%

IP Telephony
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IP Telephony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IP Telephony trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IP Telephony.

IP Telephony daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IP Telephony
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IP Telephony.

IP Telephony hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IP Telephony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Intranet
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MOS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple
1 1 (33.33%) Avaya
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Polycom
1 1 (33.33%) Wyse